Backend Engineer (SDE 3)

Experience: 5+ Years

We at Setu are looking for those who share our core belief -
“Every Day is Game Day”
. We bring our best selves to work each day to realize our mission of enriching the world through the power of digital commerce and financial services.

Role Purpose

We are hiring a Backend Engineer (SDE3) to join our UPI team at Setu. This role is for engineers who want to build reliable, high-scale payment systems and take end-to-end ownership of meaningful backend problems. The team works on systems that demand scale, resilience, performance, and cost efficiency.

What will you do at Setu?
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power high-scale, low-latency payment systems.
- Take end-to-end ownership of problem statements, from architecture and implementation to rollout and monitoring.
- Continuously optimize performance and infrastructure costs, identifying opportunities to make our systems faster and leaner.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and infra teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
- Strengthen system observability,



fault tolerance, and scalability through metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Follow and champion engineering best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and CI/CD automation.

Our Stack

Languages and frameworks
- Golang

Datastores
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- DynamoDB

Messaging and queues
- RabbitMQ
- SQS

Infra and monitoring
- AWS
- Prometheus
- Grafana

CI/CD and tooling
- GitLab
- Terraform
- Docker

What We Are Looking For
- Robust hands-on experience with Golang and related backend technologies.
- Solid understanding of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, distributed systems, concurrency, and system design.
- Experience in scaling backend systems or optimizing infrastructure costs at high scale.
- Familiarity with AWS and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ClickHouse.
- Demonstrated ownership mindset with the ability to

📌 SDE III (Bengaluru)
🏢 Setu
📍 Bengaluru